Amar Desh editor Mahmudur sent to jail for 'assault on police'

A Dhaka court yesterday sent back Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, to jail after rejecting remand and bail petitions in a police assault case.

The court, however, allowed police to interrogate Mahmudur at the jail gate for three days within four workdays.

The case was filed for creating anarchy and preventing police from discharging their duties in the capital's Kotwali area on February 23, 2013.

The court gave the order after Sub-inspector Azizul Haque, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Mahmudur before it with a seven-day remand prayer.

On February 15, Mahmudur was shown arrested in a bomb blast case, a day after the Supreme Court upheld a High Court bail granted to him in a sedition case.

Mahmudur was picked up from his newspaper office in the capital's Karwan Bazar on April 11, 2013. The newspaper stopped printing in mid-April that year.